Thursday, September 17, 2020

Taking Advantage

As of midnight last night, regional Victoria moved to Step 3 on the state's "Roadmap to Covid Normal". Various restrictions have been lifted, most particularly we can now take a drive and meet up (outside) with a up to 10 people. The weather forecast for today was not promising but we jumped in the car anyway and drove to the beach, to meet up with a couple of family members who also live in regional Victoria. (Sorry Melbourne friends.)


We bought some take-away lunch, and sat in a small park to eat it. I didn't get a picture of that, I was shivering too much! The wind felt like it was blowing straight from Antarctica, but fortunately there wasn't any rain. After eating we went down to see the actual beach, just long enough to take a couple of photos, then run back to the car!

Not many people on that part of the beach.

Or this bit:

Or this bit:

Victorians may recognise this as Anglesea beach. But with no-one on the beach, and no surfers or swimmers in the water, it is not the normal view of Anglesea.


According to media reports, we weren't the only regional Victorians who hit the road today. Regional Victorians emerge from the shadow of pandemic restrictions   But maybe most people chose warmer destinations!

4 comments:

jacaranda said...

Very unusual for Anglesea, there are always surfers at all times of the year. Perhaps one day we will be able to go on our weekend drives. Glad you enjoyed the change of scenery.

Julierose said...

Nice that you could enjoy your drive with the newly lifted restrictions...hugs, Julierose

Jeanette said...

It looks so cold. Good thing you have a lovely warm comfortable car.

hetty said...

Nice beach. Too bad it was so cold. We seem to be going backwards with this Covid thing. A lot of things have been cancelled. Our rate of infections is going up.